Promise Ledger

Claims

A neutral, sourced fact-check ledger of public claims and promises by Narendra Modi and Amit Shah.

By verdict

9False
30Misleading
13Unachieved
23Missed deadline
15In progress
74True
6Unverifiable

By speaker

13Amit Shah
1Arun Jaitley
3Ashok Gehlot
2Ashwini Vaishnaw
2Bhajan Lal Sharma
2Bhupinder Singh Hooda
2Ghulam Nabi Azad
3Himanta Biswa Sarma
6Jairam Ramesh
1Jyotiraditya Scindia
1Kamal Nath
7Kapil Sibal
1Mallikarjun Kharge
21Manmohan Singh
2Mansukh Mandaviya
1Mohan Yadav
1N. Kiran Kumar Reddy
44Narendra Modi
4Nirmala Sitharaman
1Nitin Gadkari
9P. Chidambaram
1Piyush Goyal
1Pralhad Joshi
1Pranab Mukherjee
1Pushkar Singh Dhami
1Rahul Gandhi
1Rajnath Singh
1S. Jaishankar
8Sheila Dikshit
1Shivraj Singh Chouhan
4Siddaramaiah
7Sonia Gandhi
3Sushilkumar Shinde
4Tarun Gogoi
4Y. S. Rajasekhara Reddy
5Yogi Adityanath

170 of 170 claims

MisleadingNarendra Modi(draft)
“From 2004 to 2014 there were fewer than 350 universities in the country... and today, within these 10-12 years, nearly 650 new universities have been added. We are approaching the figure of 1,000.”
AISHE data show university-level institutions rising from about 760 in 2014-15 to about 1,289 in 2023-24 (an increase of roughly 529) and from 723 to 1,113 in an earlier PIB release, which does not match the stated 650 additions or the 'fewer than 350 in 2014' starting point. →
Missed deadlineKapil Sibal(draft)
“Gram Panchayats will get broadband speed of up to 100 Mbps under a government project that aims to connect all 2.5 lakh panchayats in the country over the next two years.”
Kapil Sibal said in 2013 that the National Optical Fibre Network would connect all 2.5 lakh gram panchayats with up to 100 Mbps broadband within about two years; by 2014 only a few hundred kilometres of the planned 300,000 km of optical fibre had been laid, and the first phase was completed only in December 2017. →
TrueManmohan Singh(draft)
“Because of our Government's efforts for development of agriculture and for protecting the interests of farmers, agriculture has grown at an average rate of 3.3 per cent in the 11th Plan which is substantially higher t…”
The Prime Minister stated that agriculture grew at an average of 3.3 per cent in the Eleventh Plan versus 2.4 per cent in the Tenth Plan; official estimates put Eleventh Plan agricultural growth in the 3.3-3.7 per cent range, above the Tenth Plan's 2.4 per cent. →
MisleadingJairam Ramesh(draft)
“The sanitation coverage in rural areas of the country was 21.9 per cent as per census 2001, but with the effective implementation of Total Sanitation Campaign, its coverage in the rural areas has increased to approxim…”
The minister reported 73 per cent rural sanitation coverage in September 2011, while Census 2011 counted 32.7 per cent of rural households with a latrine within their premises; his own later Lok Sabha reply cited the 32.7 per cent Census figure. →
TrueSonia Gandhi(draft)
“Along the lines of NREGA, we will enact a National Food Security Act. ... The Indian National Congress pledges that every family living below the poverty line either in rural or urban areas will be entitled, by law, t…”
The 2009 Congress manifesto pledged a statutory right to food and a legal entitlement of 25 kg of rice or wheat per family per month at Rs 3/kg; the National Food Security Act was enacted in September 2013, entitling priority households to 5 kg per person per month at Rs 3/2/1 per kg. →
TrueP. Chidambaram(draft)
“For marginal farmers (i.e., holding upto 1 hectare) and small farmers (1-2 hectare), there will be a complete waiver of all loans that were overdue on December 31, 2007 and which remained unpaid until February 29, 200…”
The 2008-09 Budget announced an agricultural debt waiver and debt-relief scheme of about Rs 60,000 crore with implementation to be completed by 30 June 2008; PIB and RBI documents record that the waiver was rolled out and the debt-relief window was later extended to June 2010. →
UnachievedY. S. Rajasekhara Reddy(draft)
“Jalayagnam comprised 86 irrigation projects taken up from 2004-05 with the aim of creating an ayacut of 97.46 lakh acres and stabilising an existing ayacut of 22.53 lakh acres.”
Jalayagnam, launched in 2004 with 86 projects and a target of about 97 lakh acres of new irrigation, was found by CAG's 2012 performance audit to have been taken up without adequate planning and clearances and to have largely not delivered the intended irrigation potential within the term. →